skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that local LLMs are mostly just toys that output basic responses, and simply can’t compete with full LLMs trained with $60 million+ worth of compute time, and that no matter how good hardware gets, larger companies will always have even better hardware and resources to output even better results, so basically this is pointless for anything competitive or serious. Is this accurate?
Because of ad networks, you didn't even need to visit a disreputable part of the Internet. The virus was delivered via ads. The reason I won't internet without ad blockers.
Bash on osx is pretty old due to avoiding GPLv3. I think they have zsh as the default login shell
Passengers say plane filled with smoke after fiery landing in Halifax
On Mac, it's Cmd+o for types, Cmd+shift+o for actual file names.
Ask HN: What did "computer geek" type people do before computers were invented?
As in the type of people who become computer/programming geeks

What did those type of people "nerd out on" as a hobby before computers were invented/accessible?
Do you have an example of a western government only letting someone come home to visit ailing parents in exchange for spying on their countrymen in a foreign nation?

I’m sure it happens just because there are lots of people. But I’m having a hard time coming up with a western nation that has a significant political dissident diaspora. I’d guess that the war on terror might generate one somewhere?
This is a good article to familiarize yourself with the concepts, but would be great if they just listed a few keyboards that are top notch or popular for people to get started. Regardless, this is a lot of words to day that people should own either:

1. An IBM Model M keyboard, or
2. An HHKB Type S in charcoal with Topre switches and blank keycaps.
You cut off the part of the quote that says you can’t trust people by default, misrepresenting what who you quoted was saying.
It had the ability to call emergency services. But I don’t think it got map or traffic data through the cellular radio. If it was getting data through the cellular radio it wasn’t very much data.
Db changes are generally at runtime, how would you recompile rust code during the save of the data to the db? How do you rollback the change if a compile fails? How do you add the necessary code to handle new cases of the enum but not have it present in the db? This is amazingly interesting to me, would love to know more.
In a nutshell, it has a unique structure, a wider mandate, and operates a bit differently than your typical intelligence service - especially domestically.

"One of the largest and most secretive intelligence organizations in the world, it maintains powerful branches at the provincial, city, municipality and township levels throughout China."
That Chinese cities are safer is obviously true. That there's tremendous small-firm competition and a more or less hands-off attitude towards private business is also true, which people who buy anything from China or speak with Chinese business partners quickly come to realize.

Frankly, I'm not even convinced that the average Chinese person has less say in his or her Government than the average American or (especially) European.
Price discrimination is when you charge different amounts for the same thing to different customers. And usually the difference in those prices are not made apparent. Like when travel websites quote iOS users more than Android because they generally can afford to pay more.

This is just regular ole pricing.
It would indeed be foolish to pay an invoice to a company that has very publicly declared insolvency. Many if not most contracts I have ever signed contain a provision voiding the obligations of the parties if either party is insolvent.
Show HN: A tool that helps you ask good questions to learn better
When I encounter a new topic, I often struggle to consistently ask meaningful, in-depth questions, but I enjoy question-driven learning, so I built this with Claude.

The idea behind is that you read the "Guide" to get an initial mental model of the complex subject, so you will feel the urge to ask questions to fill in the gaps of the mental models.

And once you understand the core idea, you read the "summary" to fill in other smaller gaps of the subject.

The chatbot is prompted by default to use things you understand well as analogy/starting point, so the explanations should feel relatable.

This is an very early endeavor to for me to facilitate understandings with AI, feel free to share any feedbacks!

p.s. You can try with papers outside your comfort zone. For me I tried "attention is all you need", and I think it worked quite well.
(Regina George voice) So you agree? There are no “user protections” on X?
Not from me, it doesn't. That's enviable and I'm glad to hear you were able to have that.
It’s actually the classic textbook example.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/externality.asp
I was actually rather fond of the editor in ISPF by the time I was done with the Mastering the Mainframe course.
It's a great format, only stained by the mention of advertiser tracking cookies at the very bottom.
> How is that unethical? X is Musk's toy to do with as he pleases.

I offer that that rights aren't ethics. Musk has a reasonable right to censor speech on his platform that he doesn't agree with.

However, when someone establishes themselves as a free speech absolutist, it is arguably unethical for them to remove, suppress and continually work to eliminate speech they disagree with.
I thought the hyperbole was over-the-top enough to discourage a strict interpretation, but hyper-rational HN will never crack! And 30% is a lot considering the remainder has to pay the rights holders first.
I like these kinds of ideas. I've spent a lot of time thinking about similar ones. Here's my rough translation of this particular concept to Emacs:

(defun imagify-buffer ()
(interactive)
(font-lock-ensure)
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-min))
(while
(re-search-forward
(rx "(%image \""
(group (1+ (or alphanumeric "+" "/" "=")))
"\")")
nil t)
(when (equal 'font-lock-comment-face
(get-char-property (match-beginning 0) 'face))
(let* ((replaced-string (match-string 0))
(base64 (match-string 1))
(image (create-image
(base64-decode-string base64)
nil t :scale 4.0)))
(goto-char (match-beginning 0))
(kill-region (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0))
(insert-image image replaced-string))))))

(defun insert-image-thingy (filename)
(interactive "f")
(let* ((s (with-temp-buffer
(set-buffer-multibyte nil)
(insert-file-contents-literally filename)
(buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max))))
(base64 (base64-encode-string s t))
(thingy (format ";; (%%image \"%s\")" base64)))
(insert thingy)
(imagify-buffer)))

(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook #'imagify-buffer)
(add-hook 'lisp-interaction-mode-hook #'imagify-buffer)
(imagify-buffer)

;; (%image "PHN2ZyBoZWlnaHQ9IjE4IiB2aWV3Qm94PSI0IDQgMTg4IDE4OCIgd2lkdGg9IjE4IiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjxwYXRoIGQ9Im00IDRoMTg4djE4OGgtMTg4eiIgZmlsbD0iI2Y2MCIvPjxwYXRoIGQ9Im03My4yNTIxNzU2IDQ1LjAxIDIyLjc0NzgyNDQgNDcuMzkxMzAwODMgMjIuNzQ3ODI0NC00Ny4zOTEzMDA4M2gxOS41NjU2OTYzMWwtMzQuMzIzNTIwNzEgNjQuNDg2NjE0Njh2NDEuNDkzMzg1MzJoLTE1Ljk4di00MS40OTMzODUzMmwtMzQuMzIzNTIwNzEtNjQuNDg2NjE0Njh6IiBmaWxsPSIjZmZmIi8+PC9zdmc+")

This adaptation hooks onto an Emacs language mode—Emacs Lisp mode, in this snippet—and searches for, and translates, a regex syntax (%image) appearing in the comments section. This piggybacks on the language mode's own parser (the 'font-lock-comment-face thingy). The image-handling part is core Emacs functionality; like DrRacket it does support these things natively.
Sounds like the actual issue is that everyone agrees that "something" needs to be done, but can't agree on the details, so it flames out when it comes to the implementation stage. Your proposal for "constitutional reform" mirrors this. What "constitutional reform" would solve this? Moving to a unitary system?
Anyone using a hardware firewall with apple devices explicitly balcklisting Apple's IP address range? If so, any interesting issues to watch for?
You’re right. But: Anyone in IT or tech, thinking deeply about the raw facts. They know it always boils down to trust, not technology.

The interesting thing is that Apple has created a cathedral of seemingly objective sexy technical details that feel like security. But since it’s all trust, feelings matter!

So my answer is, if it feels like a privacy violation, it is. Your technical comparison will be more persuasive if you presented it in Computer Modern in a white paper, or if you are an important Substack author or reply guy, or maybe take a cue from the shawarma guy on Valencia Street and do a hunger strike while comparing two ways to get location info.
Highly highly disagree. It seems to me the opposite!

People (incl. here) want to rationalise their behaviour by giving excuses — such as the very popular "but X is even worse and people don't complain about it" that you yourself are doing — for the fact that they work on in-ethical stuff, because the honest answer is simply "this pays cartloads of money, fuck you got mine", which is unpalatable to their own self-perception.
Ask HN: High Quality infrastructure conferences in Europe
Hi,

I attended velocity once in Amsterdam and remember the quality of the talks and the discussions worth the high cost of a ticket. It seems velocity doesn't happen anymore and I wanted ask around if you know other conferences focused on similar topics (infrastructure, infrastructure architecture, platform architecture, cloud architecture, etc) that have high quality talks and are not mostly market ting veiled as conference) and see taking place somewhere in Europe. Or at least relates, like the goto conference.
>I assume such events are randomly distributed.

your point is racism towards asians does not exist, because these random assholes are being assholes toward random targets and they would basically act the same way to other white people. i disagree. i believe what the grandparent comment described about their partner's experience in rural town america is more or less true. you are free to think they are a liar or an outlier. but when people you have never interacted with call you a chinese ching chong on the street when you're just walking home, you have to admit there is some racial element to their abuse. would they have yelled anything at me if i were just another white dude in their predominantly white neighborhood? somehow i highly doubt that.

no, i don't think these people go about their lives consciously trying to be especially mean to asian people. most of them have probably just internalized certain biases against asians. for the sake of convenience, i and many others have decided to categorize such patterns of behavior as racism.

again, you are free to believe that racism is not real. if you are squarely within that camp, i doubt anything i say will change your mind.
Super basic intro but perhaps useful. Doesn't mention quant sizes, which is important when you're GPU poor. Lots of other client-side things you can do too, like KoboldAI, TavernAI, Jan, LangFuse for observability, CogVLM2 for a vision model.

One of the best places to get the latest info on what people are doing with local models is /lmg/ on 4chan's /g/
> but it exists

A religion without gods can exist, and trying to prove God does not exist can be a hobby, but Atheism does not mean either of those concepts.
The previous Twitter administration was quite open about the censorship they were doing and the reasons they did it. You may not like the result, but at least they tried to deal with their inherent conflict of interest (commerce vs. societal good) in a thoughtful way. The current one, on the other hand, constantly trumpets its free-speech absolutism while Elon tells the staff to delete whatever he wants whenever he wakes up in a bad mood, and artificially boost his own trolling.
I used to tutor physics in college. My students would show a problem they worked and ask for feedback, and I’d tell them that they definitely went wrong somewhere since they calculated that the rollercoaster was 23,000 miles tall.

Which is to say, it will depend a lot on the context and the understanding of the person doing the calculation.
Most if not all of the times it "hallucinated" it was paraphrasing the web.
Technically I’d say it’s more accurate to call some of these homeless as non-functional drug addicts.
> What the US does can be criticised by its citizens, and protested. People can be punished. Wrongdoing can be exposed. Plenty of people in the US criticise the invasion of Iraq.

You won't be protesting in the U.S. without significant risks to your economic and social status. BTW - The Iraq war was several wars ago, and most of the people chatting here weren't even born for the first Iraq war.

2017 became the year the censors and suspensions of anti-social media started. Now with A.I. mods owned by an entitled parasitic elite, we get a highly censored world were your only recourse is offline, often in solitude.

If you care to test your theory, that you can criticise who you like in the U.S., I suggest you protest Israel, loudly and often.
> Synchronous I/O looks appealing for beginners and simple projects.

Yes. And.

Synchronous I/O is suitable for almost all projects

When it is unsuitable it is catastrophicly unsuitable,
Z/OS systems are rackmount nowadays too, they just take up the full 42U.

At least back in the POWER8 days those z/Linux systems were the fastest you could buy, and IBM was super happy to let you overclock them: their reps told me that was just more CPU sales for them.
The mobile RTX 4090 has 16GB https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-4090-Laptop...
My gut feeling is that there may be optimization you can do for faster performance (but I could be wrong since I don't know your setup or requirements). In general on a 4090 running between Q6-Q8 quants my tokens/sec have been similar to what I see on cloud providers (for open/local models). The fastest local configuration I've tested is Exllama/TabbyAPI with speculative-decoding (and quantized cache to be able to fit more context)
Not the OP but I found this interesting so went digging [1].

>Amongst other things, the contract also commits the recipient to “regularly submit” a formal “Situation Report” (called the Study/Research/Training Situation Report for Personnel Studying Abroad 出国留学人员学习/研修情况报告) to the relevant Chinese embassy or consulate, and “participate in annual PhD student reviews” there.

[1] https://ukctransparency.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/China...
I don't really see France trying in any way to ask me to spy for it. And to steal what, the formula for Belgian chocolate or fricadelle?
It's at least plausible that someone at the DEA genuinely wants to make a nicer, safer world for themselves and their neighbors. Yes, the agency does the terrible things you mention, but it also gets some horrific stuff off the streets. (Think fentanyl and meth, not weed. I couldn't care less about that.)

No one working for Big Tobacco thinks they're making the world better unless they're an idiot.
The issue really isn't opt-in itself but how the option is presented.

I agree that a lot of people don't read, or attempt to understand the UI being presented to them in any meaningful manner. It really is frustrating seeing that happen.

But, think about the "colorful" option you briefly mentioned. Dark patterns have promoted this kind of behaviour from popups. The whole interaction pattern has been forever tainted. You need to present it in another way.
That's a strange question. It sounds like you're saying the author isn't serious in their use of LLMs. Can you describe what you mean by competitive and serious?

You're commenting on a post about how the author runs LLMs locally because they find them useful. Do you think they would run them and write an entire post on how they use it if they didn't find it useful? The author is seriously using them.
I'm surprised nobody (in the comments I scrolled by) has brought up the Web option (which only shows links) yet
>operates a bit differently than your typical intelligence service - especially domestically

Fair enough.

But as wild speculation with no real insight, I'd guess that such a large mass organizational structure probably also precludes the same rigid centralization and advanced capabilities of other intelligence agencies i.e. it probably operates more as a snitching hotline to gather less specific intel on a wider range of people with less ability to perform any actionable espionage type operations, instead of a horde of spies illegally infiltrating every western government, university, and business.

But again I got no real idea.
>If innovation could solve homelessness, San Francisco wouldn't have had the crisis it currently does.

You can't innovate when zoning regulations and building codes prevent you from doing so.
You fell for the propaganda. The bill had funding for Ukraine and Gaza which is why it was DoA for Republicans.
Unintuitive optimization for performing paths union
I didn’t flag it but I can’t help but notice how the stories are of awful abusers and their victims while somehow the article puts the blame for their suffering on OnlyFans.

The tone and the subtext seem to suggest that it is somehow OnlyFans who is causing women to be “deceived, drugged, terrorized and sexually enslaved” rather than the people who are perpetrating the actual deceiving, drugging, terrorizing, and sexual enslavement. (Why name the service OnlyFans but not the abuser who poured hot oil on their victim’s back?)
you can’t be that naive… he bought it apparently for “free speech reasons” which he repeats every chance he gets (even on the same day he is silencing his critics). Xi Jinping is more for free speech than Elon is :)
Financial companies figured out how to do this in the run-up to the GFC, and everyone else learned it from them in the immediate aftermath.

"They did all that, and literally none of them went to jail? We got to get us some..."

Post-2008 tech companies were built that way from the get-go.
Recruiters, in my case, have either been contractors or employees of the companies for which they're hiring. In the latter case, they're better prepared than those of the former.
You know what I'm assuming? No, you have no idea. I take my word for it not yours. Again, you're lost in this imagining trying to make your 'not trying' about other people or excuses. It's not. Just about you.
Most of the people here aren't biochemists, hence q "biochemistry = scary untouchable magic" POV. But for those that have done the chemistry in a university setting before and gone on to being professionals in the field, know the plant-based history of the field, as well as the history of synthesizing "stuff" and ingesting it, by certain individuals in the field.

it's important to get the chemistry right, but if you know the failure modes, it's far less of a black box and thus less scary.
It’s not so much a portability thing IMO as it is a utility thing. If I have a newer bash in my PATH than what is in /bin/bash, I want to use it.
You might also be interested in designs by Paul Elkins. I like his use of coroplast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPWpjnmL3B0&t=213s
They built radios.
Software Design Is Knowledge Building
I suppose they did the same sorts of things pianists did before pianos.

Edit: and built radios.
All the clocks in my BMW were synchronized.
NeRF-Casting: Improved View-Dependent Appearance with Consistent Reflections
AHash: A fast non-cryptographic keyed hash for in-memory hashmaps
we're leaving this doublethink wordplay back in 2024 where it belongs.
Yes. However, just like someone considering dinner might falsely convince themselves 'I will eat this broccoli and this cheesecake and it will balance out to mostly healthy,' teaching some neighborhood kids to code won't ethically offset evil professional work, nor will donating a trivial fraction of your share of the ill-gotten proceeds.
Sending traffic between AZs doesn’t necessarily improve availability and can decrease it. Each of your services can be multi-az, but have hosts that talk just to other endpoints in their AZ.
Exec., meet exec.?
I imagine the scorn would occur if you planted a flag about how the company morals aligned with your own.
Fish has always used utf-32 codepoints stored in wchar_t, from the first git commit in 2005.

Unfortunately it's pervasive throughout the entire codebase (which does a lot of string shuffling).

So it's a historical mistake, but not something to be fixed in the same step as switching the implementation language.

bstr was mentioned as a direction and is a possibility.
> Why name the service OnlyFans but not the abuser who poured hot oil on their victim’s back?

This is false. The article does name the abuser.
In any of those cases, using `/usr/bin/env bash` gets what the user probably wants
That's one possibility. The other possibility is that the journalist mentions anonymous sources because he/she does not have any and is simply making stuff up.
Perhaps a foundation or working group that manages the project collectively would help, as opposed to running it as an individual (benevolent) dictator for life.

Are you familiar with how Proton Mail/Proton AG was crowdfunded, and how it transitioned to a non-profit foundation structure, for example?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Mail

https://proton.me/blog/proton-non-profit-foundation

https://proton.me/foundation
It's a ton of his videos. He did it a lot more often in the earlier days... if you sort by oldest videos it was pretty much 100% of his content: Walk around, ask people questions about stuff, and post how wrong everyone is. As the channel progressed this became less of a thing, usually just part of the intro. But he still does it.

I know it’s not explicitly trying to mock people, but I’m sure those people felt dumb after being told they’re wrong. He does his best to be nice about it, but something about his personality (or maybe just his facial expression) gives off this intensely smug vibe. He’s just so damned used to being smarter than everyone, it just comes across… even when he’s trying really hard to be nice about it.
I'm not sure providing that level of complex logic and scheduling is really a proper task for OS kernels. It's essentially what you get from green threads / coroutines which are provided by numerous runtimes and frameworks, but those have to be translated to the various different async IO facilities in order to be portable between OSes.
Obviously, you have never had to use that vacuous argument with an HR department.

This is completely not True.

Either

1. You know it is not true, and are just trolling.

or

2. You do believe this, and have just redefined these words to fit a particular world view. Which I guess can happen. If this generation has re-defined the words 'jeans' and 'pants', then guess, I can't argue against how people re-define words. Just goes to how the world is being divided by re-defining entire vocabularies.
This is the third serious airline incident in 72 hours.
absolutely love it
And the main thing they wanted is what they've said all along - Ukraine agreeing not to join NATO or host foreign military bases. Everything else was negotiable - they were even willing to compromise on the exact status of Crimea!

That wasn't what Putin said in his December 2021 ultimatum.
Canadian federalism relies on an interworking of government levels. To use an example, criminal law is written federally, the prosecutors are funded and run provincially, the superior courts are run provincially but the federal government appoints the judges.

It's a nice idea but as you say when we run into governments with different views on how to realize things, it can result in a log-jam.

I don't think anything as dramatic as a unitary state is needed; just make healthcare and housing the sole jurisdiction of either the feds or the provinces. The current system of joint funding seems to have caused a game of jurisdictional hot potato.